Senior Research Manager

The role

You will lead research to make agent training data and evals more useful for improving frontier models. You will lead research engineers through projects and turn findings into methods used at scale.

What you will do

• Set the research direction for data quality
• Lead synthetic data efforts
• Lead research engineers from problem definition through implementation
• Coach research engineers to strengthen technical judgment and execution
• Design and review experiments connecting model behavior to data and reward design
• Develop methods for validating and improving training data at scale
• Partner with research engineers, domain experts, and data vendors
• Communicate findings and tradeoffs clearly

Required qualifications

• Experience leading technical research projects to completion
• Experience directly managing and mentoring researchers or research engineers
• Strong understanding of machine learning and reinforcement learning
• Experience with agent training data, evals, benchmarks, synthetic data, or model evaluation infrastructure
• Sound experimental judgment
• Strong written communication

Nice to have

• Built scalable data quality systems or validation pipelines for model training
• Experience diagnosing reward hacking, grader errors, or other subtle agent failure modes
• Experience translating research findings into tools and processes used by others
• Early-stage startup experience and strong communication skills for collaboration across teams and time zones

Benefits

• Competitive compensation
• 100% covered top-of-the-line medical, dental, and vision (US and Singapore employees)
• Lunch and dinner for in-office employees
• Company-wide holiday break (Christmas Eve to New Year’s Day) on top of PTO and paid holidays
• 401k with a 4% match
• Equinox membership and commuter benefits (US employees)
• Health/wellness stipend (Singapore employees)
• Unlimited access to tokens for ChatGPT, Claude Code, Cursor, etc.
• Annual travel budget to visit either office

Before you apply

• We provide support for relocation and visas for strong full-time candidates to the US or Singapore
• The process is 2 technical interviews and a 2-3 day work trial

About the company

HUD's mission is to build reliable, fair and open infrastructure for AI data. The team is a growing group of researchers, engineers and operators backed by $16M from top VCs and YC (W25).